Re: [Evolution] GMail & OAuth?

[Robert McDonald <evolution-list dancingkayak com>]

On Sat, 2022-03-05 at 18:28 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> On Fri, 2022-03-04 at 21:36 +0000, Mark Stanton wrote:
> > > when you create the account in Evolution and give it a gmail.com
> > > address it will set all the correct parameters.
> >
> > Will that work changing the account setup from password to OAuth? I
> > tried that and I'm not sure it worked, but I'm sending a test message
> > to try to confirm that.
>
> Quite possibly it will work, but it would probably be better to get
> things "normalised" by deleting the account setup and re-doing it. It's
> all IMAP really, so all your mail is on the server so everything will
> be restored

I got the same email about the May 30 deadline for both of my GMail
accounts, so today I:
   1. read https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255
   2. logged into one of the Google accounts via web browser
   3. confirmed backup email address
   4. tried changing one of the accounts in Evolution to "OAuth2
      (Google)" in both receive and send configurations (didn't delete
      and re-do the account)
   5. got Google Mail Authentication request within an Evolution email
      request
   6. entered email address to web page presented by Google web server
      (window shows the URL of the server - nice confirmation)
   7. entered password to similar page
   8. chose to Allow trust of Evolution
   9. disabled "Less secure app access" in that Google account
I was able to send and receive emails using that account after that. I
found Evolution's handling of OAuth2 easy to follow. It just worked.

I changed my second Gmail account an hour or two later the same way.

-- 
Robert McDonald